Tag Search: “jobs”
The psychosocial value of employment: Evidence from a refugee camp
Many of the world’s most vulnerable groups – including refugees –lack access to employment opportunities, which along with the obvious benefit of income generation also produces psychosocial benefits ...
- Reshmaan Hussam Erin M. Kelley Gregory Lane Fatima Zahra
- 20 June, 2022
- Articles
Automation and inequality
Public discourse around automation has seen some take a fairly alarmist view – with concerns around its impact on employment, wages, the labour share of national income, and inequality. Others take a ...
- Dilip Mookherjee Pascual Restrepo
- 04 May, 2022
- Videos
Automation and inequality
Public discourse around automation has seen some take a fairly alarmist view – with concerns around its impact on employment, wages, the labour share of national income, and inequality. Others take a ...
- Dilip Mookherjee Pascual Restrepo
- 04 May, 2022
- Podcasts
Temperature, labour reallocation, and industrial production
While it is well-established that agricultural production is vulnerable to weather shocks, less is known about how those affected respond or the economic consequences of any responses. Analysing data ...
- Jonathan Colmer
- 13 April, 2022
- Articles
International financial architecture and emerging economies
Policy responses to Covid-19 have been a mix of fiscal and monetary policy – with the latter doing the heavy-lifting in both developed and developing countries. Against this backdrop, in this edition ...
- Viral Acharya Amartya Lahiri
- 05 April, 2022
- Videos
International financial architecture and emerging economies
Policy responses to Covid-19 have been a mix of fiscal and monetary policy – with the latter doing the heavy-lifting in both developed and developing countries. Against this backdrop, in this edition ...
- Viral Acharya Amartya Lahiri
- 05 April, 2022
- Podcasts
Examining Himachal’s urban employment guarantee
Despite proposals by economists on the need for an urban work programme in India, a national-level policy seems some time away from coming to fruition. However, some states have implemented such progr...
- Krishna Priya Choragudi
- 21 March, 2022
- Notes from the Field
Trade, internal migration, and human capital: Who gained from India’s IT boom?
The Indian economy experienced trade expansion and an IT boom during 1993-2004. How did the spectacular growth in a high skill-intensive sector – concentrated in a few big cities – affect inequality a...
- Devaki Ghose
- 14 March, 2022
- Articles
Budget 2022-23 and outlook for the Indian economy
Several commentators have lauded the recently presented Budget 2022-23 as a ‘growth budget’, on account of the large allocations made for capital expenditure on public infrastructure. On the other han...
- Ashok Kotwal Pronab Sen
- 03 March, 2022
- Podcasts
Budget 2022-23 and outlook for the Indian economy
Several commentators have lauded the recently presented Budget 2022-23 as a ‘growth budget’, on account of the large allocations made for capital expenditure on public infrastructure. On the other han...
- Ashok Kotwal Pronab Sen
- 03 March, 2022
- Videos
Budget 2022-23: The elephants and the ostrich
Analysing India’s 2022-23 Union Budget, Neeraj Hatekar contends that MNREGA, the rural job guarantee programme that has not received additional funding vis-à-vis 2021-22 budget estimates, should be le...
- Neeraj Hatekar
- 09 February, 2022
- Perspectives
Estimating changes in India’s workforce during 2011-2018
Prior to the 2017-18 Periodic Labour Force Survey, there was paucity of official, labour-market data since the last nationally representative survey was from 2011, and other surveys in the intervening...
- Amit Basole Paaritosh Nath
- 17 December, 2021
- Perspectives